VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

rickpurzer This is a pretty atrocious movie. Standard SciFi (SyFy?) Channel garbage, as another reviewer has already pointed out.However, I live with an African raven, who's pretty much taken over my house. As a result, this is one of our favorite films, despite its being largely unwatchable.The human cast is wooden and predictable, the writing is crap, but the movie does benefit from a minimal use of CGI. I rented this movie expecting to see an avian version of Snakes On A Plane - not a single real animal on screen, just bad CGI facsimiles. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the majority of the scenes used real birds. The best part of the DVD, I thought, was a "behind the scenes" feature on the film's Czech raven-trainers and their birds.If you don't share your house with a corvid, you probably won't have much patience with this movie, but if you like you crows or ravens you might consider renting this just for the featurette on trained ravens and their wranglers...

Neil Doyle In what appears to be a feeble rip-off of THE BIRDS, KAW stars SEAN PATRICK FLANERY as a man about to serve his last day as sheriff of a sleepy town when some nasty business involving black ravens preying on people comes to his attention. Naturally, he has to do something about it--and then the fun begins.What's so irritating about this one is that everyone seems to deliberately do the wrong thing in order to cause even more hell to break loose. Either careless with their guns or thinking they can shoot a couple of ravens and emerge without a scratch--not knowing that each "kaw" brings hundreds more to the scene.But the main trouble with KAW is that none of the people are the least bit interesting. In this kind of thriller, you have to care about the participants. Even SEAN PATRICK FLANERY as the brave sheriff doing his duty to protect the townspeople is as bland as can be. Let's face it, he's no ROD TAYLOR who played Hitchcock's hero in THE BIRDS.And unfortunately, Rod Taylor has a small role here as Doc, looking more like character actor Walter Brennan than Rod Taylor. He was just about unrecognizable to me until I realized I'd seen his name in the cast. Whatever, age has certainly caused a transformation in his looks.As for the story, it starts slowly but the moment it gets into the more frantic movements of the ravens, it goes into a frenzy of screaming hysteria from the girls on the bus and elsewhere dominating the movie until the end. If you enjoy listening to screams, this one's for you.Summing up: Some passable CGI effects and overall good photography but everyone is let down by a weak script and poorly developed characters.

Woodyanders A flock of ravens contract mad cow's disease and turn into vicious carnivorous beasts who attack the populace of a sleepy small town. A handful of folks who include the stalwart Police Chief Wayne Merkle (a solid Sean Patrick Flanery), amiable physician Doc (winningly played by Rod Taylor), and recovering alcoholic school bus driver Clyde (the excellent Stephen McHattie) do their best to survive this harrowing ordeal. Director Sheldon Wilson, working from a smart, tight script by Benjamin Sztajnkrycer, relates the absorbing story at a steady pace, maintains a serious tone throughout (there's a refreshing absence of any silly humor), and effectively builds a considerable amount of suspense. The tense gradual build-up of the opening act eventually culminates in an especially harrowing and exciting last third. Moreover, the ravens are genuinely creepy, the explanation for the birds' violent behavior is both plausible and topical, the CGI effects are surprisingly decent and acceptable, and there's a handy helping of grisly gore (the mangled victims of the bird attacks look pretty nasty). Nice supporting performances by Kristin Booth as Wayne's caring wife Cynthia, John Ralston as superstitious Mennonite farmer Oskar, Michelle Duquet as friendly diner owner Betty, Ashley Newbrough as mean teen Doris, Gray Powell as eager deputy Stan, Vladimir Bondarenko as strict farmer Jacob, Megan Park as Oskar's sweet daughter Gretchen, and Wendy Lyon as perky police dispatcher Luanne. Both John Tarver's polished cinematography and Steven London's shuddery score are up to speed. An enjoyable fright feature.

logical-1 This movie is as bad as it sounds. Killer ravens. I watch almost *anything* that is labeled horror. But I had been avoiding renting this since the premise seemed so weak that it couldn't possibly flesh out into a watchable movie. My wife brought it home one Saturday night and... I was right. The problem here is exacerbated by the fact that I had recently watched two movies which had killer birds in them as a subplot and they were pretty well done. "Resident Evil: Extinction" was one of them, can't remember the other but it was a ghost movie o some kind. Anyway, the crows/ravens in this movie didn't scare me one bit. I kept thinking "just cover your head with your jacket and you'll be all right dammit!" The production values are a couple of notches higher than the quality of the script. The acting is standard/mediocre, which isn't a deal-breaker for me in these genre flicks. The cgi was, again, standard/mediocre, which wouldn't bother me much. Oddly, the photography was quite well done, (always comparing it to the quality of the script). It seemed like there was *some* talent in the crew, but they were simply doomed to make a horribly scripted piece of ... I cannot stress enough how bad, bland, clichéd the story is. It's the only reason I felt compelled to write about it.